Profile of Charles Babcock

Editor at Large, Cloud

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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.

Articles by Charles Babcock
posted in November 2016

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Driverless Vehicles & The IT Impact

11/29/2016
Juniper Research tried to answer the question, given the experimentation with driverless vehicles, when will it gain traction?
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RightScale Compares Pricing on AWS, Google and Microsoft

11/28/2016
Cloud management front-end firm RightScale works with Google, Microsoft, and Amazon and compares their discounted pricing.
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Storage Survey: Cloud Storage Use Up, But Integration Still Sought

11/25/2016
A supplier of an object storage system asked 409 IT managers how hybrid cloud storage use was progressing. The answer: with some difficulties.
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Predix, Digital Twin 'Think' About Operations Together

11/22/2016
At GE's Minds and Machines Nov. 15-16, GE illustrated how it's using Predix and a 'digital twin' to solve turbine maintenance issues.
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Energy Provider Exelon Adopts GE Predix To Keep Tabs On Turbines

11/21/2016
Major electricity supplier moves beyond experimentation, adopts GE's Predix to analyze data from all its generation plants.
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RightScale: Cloud Customers Overspend On Services

11/17/2016
In a new study of its cloud computing customers over a three-month period, RightScale found that many are passing up savings, and that overprovisioning resources is still widespread.
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Google Makes Machine Learning Available To Enterprise IT

11/16/2016
At its machine learning event, Google put on a display of APIs for use in automated image analysis and categorization -- and for the translation of 103 languages. The company joins AWS and Microsoft in offering more of these services through the cloud.
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6 Reasons Private Clouds Aren't Dead Yet

11/16/2016
Public cloud use is growing fast, but there are still plenty of reasons to adopt a private cloud. Product development, agility, optimization of resources, and cost containment are among them.
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Cisco: Cloud-Native Apps Will Dominate By 2020

11/14/2016
Big data, IoT, and other applications are changing cloud computing, according to Cisco's sixth annual Global Cloud Computing Index. The report finds that cloud traffic will represent 92% of all data center traffic by 2020, and that companies will build 485 hyperscale data centers in the next three years.
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IT Priorities Shifting Toward Security, Managing Costs

11/11/2016
A recent IDG survey shows CIOs and IT managers have a renewed concern for operational security and improved customer experience.
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Google's Urs Holzle: Moore's Law Is Ending

11/10/2016
Google's Urs Holzle says cloud suppliers won't be able to bank the gains of Moore's Law much longer and will have to eke out advances elsewhere.
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What Can IT Professionals Learn From New AWS VP?

11/10/2016
In October, Adrian Cockcroft became VP of cloud architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS). His career, which includes a long stint at Sun Microsystems and groundbreaking infrastructure work at Netflix, offers a range of lessons for IT professionals looking to fine-tune their own career goals in an era of digital transformation.
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Disaster Recovery: The Cloud Changes Everything

11/4/2016
In a recent report, Gartner looks at the growing field of disaster recover as a service, and finds how this cloud-based approach differs from the more traditional approach to DR.
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AWS Dominates IaaS, Stumbles In Managed Private Cloud

11/3/2016
Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the worldwide public IaaS market, is in tight competition in the PaaS market. But it's an also-ran when it comes to the managed private cloud category, according to a report from Synergy Research Group.
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Digital Transformation Underway, Many Will Fail At It

11/3/2016
IDC has issued its IT FutureScape forecast for 2017, which includes 10 predictions for IT. Here's how cloud, mobile, social media, big data, AI, virtual reality, and other innovations are changing the world.
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Will Digital Economy Create A Developer Shortage?

11/2/2016
As more companies seek to transform themselves digitally and effectively become software companies, some are going to have trouble filling "the developer gap," according to a Cloud Foundry report.
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